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Abuse. and now we have the white house again trying to sort of explain whats going on. we saw the porter case, the scapegoat versus the fbi. now it is a rather obscure white house personnel security office. when at the end of the day they might need to look inward and realize it is their own processes or their own personnel that are part of the problem. >> jeremy, i want to read you a tweet from the former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york who was dismissed by donald trump. the...

Because they all tell truth the power, even if the power doesnt listen to the truth. and he did that, director dan coats, my successor did that. i was very proud of him for some of the things that he said. and that takes courage, believe me, when youre there in front of the tv lights and youre kind of pushing back against your boss. but he did that. >> yeah. listen, when you -- i want to ask you this. when you hear that 30 or 40 people in the white house still dont have permanent security cleara...

People on the white house staff, which is a relatively small population, are working there on an interim clearance basis, you know, you would think that maybe they would find somebody that could get cleared. by the way, there is a law that stipulates what the timelines are. the terrorism prevention act, which president bush signed into law in december of 2004, title iii lays out what the guidelines are for how long these processes are supposed to take. adjudication, the standard for the 90% of f...

Valentines day. this is so sad, so tragic and were seeing it much too often. >> i want to bring in juliet, there are a number of families being reunited with their children. theyre in coral springs, not too far from the school. tell us about the process. >> so there are three processes going on. who is the assailant? theres the health triage, we have over a dozen people requiring medical care. and then theres family unification. a relatively new piece in crisis management that is now focused on,...

Putin, whether its sanctions, whether its using the money thats been allocated to the state department to counter propaganda, whether its to direct the cia -- >> the white house says is just the threat of the sanctions were enough to have an impact already. that was the line. >> thats not what our intel chiefs said today. they said the russians are still working -- >> i just listed three concrete ways that he has stood up to putin and you just said the white house is reluctant to stand up to put...

Interim clearance means im just going to allow you to have access to very sensitive information. and you know, the white house, obviously, is where all the very high classified material comes together. and the fact that 30 or 40 people on the white house staff, which is a relatively small population, are working there on an interim clearance basis, you know, you would think that maybe they would find somebody that could get cleared. by the way, there is a law that stipulates what the timelines a...

Do we not think that vladimir putin wants the u.s. to give aid to ukraine where they have troops, whereby the way vice president biden say, go ahead and invade kcrimea. weve now given aid to the ukrainians. is that not standing up to vladimir putin? >> im talking about the homeland and our electoral processes and hes giving putin the green light to go ahead and do what hes done before. >> or hes giving congress leverage to -- >> how do you negotiate on a covert operation? >> its not as if our in...

Around a lot today in the media. and there are two very important but separate processes, distinct processes. one is a background investigation. i think we know what that is. and secondly, its a second process called adjudication. and thats where someone in authority actually makes a determination based on the inputs provided by the investigatory body, in this case the faib about -- fbi about that persons suitability, trustworthiness to have access to classified information. what an interim clea...

A procedure how would it work up so there is already a motion of no confidence that has been tabled by the opposition and so it was set for next week its been moved forward at the request of the a.n.c. and we know that theyll make minor amendments to it but essentially the principle would be the same that m.p.s would back that motion we know that with the numbers that the a.n.c. has in parliament also its guaranteed that the opposition parties at least most of them would support it it would go t...

Going forward more hacking attempts, more attempts to intrude on our democratic processes because foreign adversaries see what the conversation already is in this country and know. they dont have to be particularly effective. even efforts to get into voter systems, even leaving behind sloppy malware will create conspiracy theories and concern here. the effectiveness of their attacks doesnt have to be very high. and also our responses to it. one thing that kept coming up yesterday is has presiden...